I recently wrote a note saying that, one way or another, all your obligations will sort themselves out by magic.
Do I really believe that? Yes. Really.
But it still takes work.
That's the part that can be hard to grasp.
We expect magic to work... like magic. You wave a wand and "poof", it happens.
But no. Work is required. That's what separates it from "magical thinking".
Magical thinking is hoping something will happen just because you want it badly enough. With no personal investment.
It's an approach I sometimes see in entrepreneurs who are stuck spinning their wheels:
The idea that their business will take off one day, just like that, without them changing anything. That the gears will unstick themselves. That one morning, what didn't work the day before will work for no reason.
Often, they're inspired by other entrepreneurs who supposedly took off that way, overnight. "By luck". So why not them?
Except it's never luck.
I've now worked with enough people to say this without a shred of doubt:
Luck, like magic, requires work.
It's prepared, learned, put in place.
Enough books have been written on "making your own luck": the entrepreneur who spends their time where opportunities live isn't "lucky" when they seize one. It's the reward for a long stretch of work that no one else saw.
Same goes for magic.
Saying "Abracadabra" at the last moment isn't enough.
You have to have let go of a certain kind of control beforehand.
You have to have made some room, inside and out.
You have to have accepted walking a path you can't see.
You have to have made yourself available to the dance, the play, the present moment.
And accepted that you're part of something bigger than yourself.
Otherwise, magic doesn't happen.
Or worse: it does.
But you don't see it.